Scientists increasingly believe black holes are key to the evolution of galaxies and instrumental in setting up the conditions for life itself to emerge. That doesn’t mean these cosmic behemoths are always benevolent.

Researchers investigating the highly eccentric orbits of multiple dwarf planets in the Kuiper Belt have found only one method of explaining the observed behavior — a ninth planet, far larger than Earth, in a highly unusual orbit around the sun.

Graphene’s properties make it a tantalizing target for semiconductor research. Now a team from Princeton has showed that flakes of graphene can work as fast, accurate optical capacitors for laser transistors in neuromorphic circuits.

TSMC may have lost ground to Samsung in 2015, but the company is determined to gain it back. The firm wants to have leaped to 5nm by 2020 — a challenging pace given the headwinds in the semiconductor industry.

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